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Author : Thomas J. Schlereth
Publisher : Rowman Altamira
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : History
ISBN : 0761991603
The country's leading authority on use of artifactual evidence in historical research collects twenty-five classic essays and gives his overview of the field of material culture.
Author : Helen Sheumaker,Shirley Wajda
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 588 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2007-11-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9781576076484
The first encyclopedia to look at the study of material culture (objects, images, spaces technology, production, and consumption), and what it reveals about historical and contemporary life in the United States. Reaching back 400 years, Material Life in America: An Encyclopedia is the first reference showing what the study of material culture reveals about American society—revelations not accessible through traditional sources and methods. In nearly 200 entries, the encyclopedia traces the history of artifacts, concepts and ideas, industries, peoples and cultures, cultural productions, historical forces, periods and styles, religious and secular rituals and traditions, and much more. Everyone from researchers and curators to students and general readers will find example after example of how the objects and environments created or altered by humans reveal as much about American life as diaries, documents, and texts.
Author : Ann Smart Martin,J. Ritchie Garrison,Henry Francis du Pont Winterthur Museum
Publisher : Winterthur Museum
Page : 446 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : UOM:39015040151840
The fourteen essays in this volume provide an important cross section of new research on the current state of American material culture scholarship. From Tupperware to stuffed owls, modern dolls to colonial portraits, the subjects that the authors study demonstrate that things provoke and sustain human dramas.
Author : Helen Sheumaker,Shirley Wajda
Publisher : ABC-CLIO
Page : 600 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2007-11-07
Category : History
ISBN : 1576076474
The first encyclopedia to look at the study of material culture (objects, images, spaces technology, production, and consumption), and what it reveals about historical and contemporary life in the United States. Reaching back 400 years, Material Life in America: An Encyclopedia is the first reference showing what the study of material culture reveals about American society—revelations not accessible through traditional sources and methods. In nearly 200 entries, the encyclopedia traces the history of artifacts, concepts and ideas, industries, peoples and cultures, cultural productions, historical forces, periods and styles, religious and secular rituals and traditions, and much more. Everyone from researchers and curators to students and general readers will find example after example of how the objects and environments created or altered by humans reveal as much about American life as diaries, documents, and texts.
Author : George W. Boudreau,Margaretta M. Lovell
Publisher : Penn State University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Material culture
ISBN : 0271081155
A collection of essays that examine early American cultural, political, and social history through a material lens, exploring the meanings of objects ranging from artworks and domestic furnishings to Penn's Treaty Tree.
Author : Arnold J. Bauer
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2001-04-30
Category : History
ISBN : 052177702X
Explores the history of material culture and consumption in Latin America over the past 500 years.
Author : Richard A. Gould,Michael B. Schiffer
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2014-06-28
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781483299204
Modern Material Culture
Author : Alan Ferg
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1987-05
Category : Art
ISBN : 0816510288
This volume describes in detail two collections of Western Apache artifacts from east-central Arizona. The materials, belonging to the Arizona State Museum, range in age from the mid-1800's to the present and represent a thorough cross-section of tools, clothing, religious paraphernalia, and games.
Author : David S. Shields
Publisher : Carolina Lowcountry and the At
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 157003852X
A heavily illustrated comparative study of artifacts and architecture from three historically linked regions Material Culture in Anglo-America examines the extent to which regions project cultural identities through the material forms of objects, buildings, and constructed environments. Utilizing more than 130 illustrations and essays by scholars representing a variety of disciplines, this volume explores the material constitution of the West Indies, Carolina lowcountry, and Chesapeake Tidewater--three historically related regions that shared strong likenesses in culture, commerce, and political development in the colonial through antebellum eras, yet also cultivated the distinctive regional flair with which they are now associated. Without reducing regionality to iconic signatures of place, the essays in this volume explore broadly the built and crafted artifacts that define and confine cultural identity in these geographic areas, locating regionality in the distinctive uses of objects as well as in their design and creation. The contributors--an impressive and international array of historical archeologists, art historians, literary historians, museum curators, social historians, geographers, and historians of material culture--combine theoretical reflections on the poetics of representative material culture with empirical studies of how things were made and put to use in specific locales. They argue that there was a "presence of place" in the built environments of these regions but that boundaries were imprecise. The essays illustrate how the material culture of urban and rural settings interpenetrated each other and discuss the complications of class, race, religion, and settler culture within developing regions to reveal how all of these factors influenced the richness of crafted artifacts. The study is further grounded in several striking case studies that dramatically demonstrate how constructed things can embody communal self-understanding while still participating in an overarching transatlantic cultural community. In addition to Shields, the contributors are Benjamin L. Carp, Bernard L. Herman, Paul E. Hoffman, Laura Croghan Kamoie, Eric Klingelhofer, Roger Leech, Carl Lounsbury, Maurie D. McInnis, Matthew Mulcahy, R. C. Nash, Louis P. Nelson, Paula Stone Reed, Jeffrey H. Richards, Natalie Zacek, and Martha A. Zierden.
Author : John Styles,Amanda Vickery
Publisher : Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Art
ISBN : STANFORD:36105122855310
Between 1700 and 1830, men and women in the English-speaking territories framing the Atlantic gained unprecedented access to material things. The British Atlantic was an empire of goods, held together not just by political authority and a common language, but by a shared material culture nourished by constant flows of commodities. Diets expanded to include exotic luxuries such as tea and sugar, the fruits of mercantile and colonial expansion. Homes were furnished with novel goods, like clocks and earthenware teapots, the products of British industrial ingenuity. This groundbreaking book compares these developments in Britain and North America, bringing together a multi-disciplinary group of scholars to consider basic questions about women, men, and objects in these regions. In asking who did the shopping, how things were used, and why they became the subject of political dispute, the essays show the profound significance of everyday objects in the eighteenth-century Atlantic world.
Author : Ian Woodward
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2007-05-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781848607262
"In his interdisciplinary review of material culture, Ian Woodward goes beyond synthesis to offer a theoretically innovative reconstruction of the field. It is filled with gems of conceptual insight and empirical discovery. A wonderful book." - Jeffrey C. Alexander, Yale University "A well-grounded and accessible survey of the burgeoning field of material culture studies for students in sociology and consumption studies. While situating the field within the history of intellectual thought in the broader social sciences, it offers detailed and accessible case studies. These are supplemented by very useful directions for further in-depth reading, making it an excellent undergraduate course companion." - Victor Buchli, University College London Why are i-pods and mobile phones fashion accessories? Why do people spend thousands remodelling their perfectly functional kitchen? Why do people crave shoes or handbags? Is our desire for objects unhealthy, or irrational? Objects have an inescapable hold over us, not just in consumer culture but increasingly in the disciplines that study social relations too. This book offers a systematic overview of the diverse ways of studying the material as culture. Surveying the field of material culture studies through an examination and synthesis of classical and contemporary scholarship on objects, commodities, consumption, and symbolization, this book: introduces the key concepts and approaches in the study of objects and their meanings presents the full sweep of core theory - from Marxist and critical approaches to structuralism and semiotics shows how and why people use objects to perform identity, achieve social status, and narrativize life experiences analyzes everyday domains in which objects are important shows why studying material culture is necessary for understanding the social. This book will be essential reading for students and researchers in sociology, anthropology, cultural studies, consumer behaviour studies, design and fashion studies.
Author : Edith Mayo
Publisher : University of Wisconsin Pres
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : History
ISBN : 0879723033
The use of objects as source materials for scholarship has been increasingly legitimized by the growth of American Studies programs which are now in the forefront in their work with objects. The use of the museum as a primary resource is currently being given a position of increasing importance in American Studies scholarship.
Author : Gary Burns
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 608 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2016-03-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781118883334
A Companion to Popular Culture is a landmark survey of contemporary research in popular culture studies that offers a comprehensive and engaging introduction to the field. Includes over two dozen essays covering the spectrum of popular culture studies from food to folklore and from TV to technology Features contributions from established and up-and-coming scholars from a range of disciplines Offers a detailed history of the study of popular culture Balances new perspectives on the politics of culture with in-depth analysis of topics at the forefront of popular culture studies
Author : Kenneth L. Ames
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : History
ISBN : IND:30000011769142
Author : Simon J. Bronner
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2021-05-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780813182742
America stocks its shelves with mass-produced goods but fills its imagination with handmade folk objects. In Pennsylvania, the "back to the city" housing movement causes a conflict of cultures. In Indiana, an old tradition of butchering turtles for church picnics evokes both pride and loathing among residents. In New York, folk-art exhibits raise choruses of adoration and protest. These are a few of the examples Simon Bronner uses to illustrate the ways Americans physically and mentally grasp things. Bronner moves beyond the usual discussions of form and variety in America's folk material culture to explain historical influences on, and the social consequences of, channeling folk culture into a mass society.